Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
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Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
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I train to fight, to win.
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I'm cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn't trade it for no other body.
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I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
